The International Stress Management Association is promoting National Stress Awareness Day today. We live under a lot more stress than we have done for some years, but there’s a lot we can do about it. Being courteous is one way of reducing stress. If we employ or manage people and set deadlines, how we do [...]
The gift of courtesy
Considering that Christmas heralds the season of goodwill to fellow men and women, the stress it can create can very quickly turn us from kind, considerate human beings into angry, impatient animals.
cost + cost + cost = cost
The 21st Century corporate world is a world of costs: recruiting is a cost; training is a cost; motivation is a cost; salary is a cost; stress is a cost; sickness is a cost; absence is a cost; employee turnover is a cost; external consultancy to remedy everything is a cost. Where is the value?